Game, such as quoits



Nov. 1933. A. }WEINRG 1,936,491

' GAME, svcn AS Qu'ons Filed April 20, 1933 prises a quoit of a size a1held by the hand, and a target t vvhic h the quoit Umrso smms;

PATENT OFFICE GAM, SUCE AS ouorcts 7 Alexander Weinberg, New York, N. Y.Application April 29, 1933. smu No. 667,115

Claims.

An object of my invention is to provide a game of the. nature of quoitswhich will have the known advantages of quoits and also other advantagesor attractions. Another object is to 5 proVide a game with the.dvantages named which, while capable of use indoors as well as outdoorsand on shipboard, wilLrequire the mini- ,mum O' apparatus and app;.ratusinexpensive to make and of attractive simplicity and ease 1o'of hndling,especially in regard to the quoit itself.

My invention consists in,whatever is described V by or is includedWithin theterfns or scope of the -appended claims.

' In the drawing;

., Fig. 1 is a perspective view f game apparatus embodying myinventionfin illustrating the mariner o! playing the game;

'1lig. 2 is a transverse sctio;1 through a quoit ,g2o embod i g myinvention.

Fig. 3, .a v ew of a horseshoe-form quoit embodying my invention.Briefly described, my apparatus in what I cnysider 110W itsrnost..desirale embodiment, comorm readily to be is thrown or tossed,the quoit},

cup and the target having a s i" -srnooth surface so that an a 3 o magiewith-the peripheral e cup.wlth the result that the v such surfaceanclremain 5 T oiifalls thereon.

Describing in detail whatisseWxi in the draw- 85 i ,'the quoit 10, ispreferabiy a thin disc, fiat on its "opposite sides with a vacuum cup11, seoured or attached to a fiat side ofthe disc, pref erablyconcentfic, and convenienfly'both disc and cup may be made in one pieceof rubber. The ,40 cup, et course, 18 concave-convex, and it has a A Vthin rim or edge so that it will sngly lie against afflat, smoothsurface.

' The target is pfefer'ably in the forin of a readil portable 'board 12with a fiat, smootlr surface marked-Ofl as by concentrio circlesl3, intoareas position 11: afights ,that, respectively, have score values markedthereon b5. suitable numerals,'wlfich may lie fiat upon. a fiooror tableor be.suspended or hung upon a wall. For ficior ordek "11se,it may be 7se. preferrd to support th t'arget surface ata slight angle or inclineand for that purbose, the far edge or the board may be. provided with adomturned fia11ge 14, Bsides the concentric circular score areas, small-indepfidentz score areas 15,

' nmygbe.m.rked onthe-boaid surface.

- t adhere to fiight makes uncertain the actual score value,

even of a skillfufly thrown quoit. Since the quoit by the action of thevacuum cap Will stick on the point of the target on which it happens tofall and will not be likely to tumble about to a difler- 7o eutposition, the skil1 of the player will count inplacing the quoit, but ashas been explained, the score value 013 the pitch or toss may beaffected by the chance tuming of the quoit.

Of course, the target may be the surface of a fioor or a table and not aseparate piece of apparatus. And, of course, the contour or shape of thequoits and that of the target may be varied'.

Any desired number of quoits may be pro- Preferably the diameter of thevacuum cup is substantially less than the diameter of the quoit body, sothat there is an overhang, or projection et the body beyond the cupwhich, .from inertia, imparts a desired pressure to the vacuum cup 35against the target surface and of course, the rim of the body standsabove such surface around the edge of the cup so that such rim may bereadfly grasped to free the vacuum grip for lifting 01 the quoit fromthe target surface.

As I have already indicated, the form or shape of the quoit body may beother than a disc. For example, it may have the horseshoe shape body100, shown in Fig. 3, with the vacuum cup 110, attached thereto atsubstantially the center by slender arms 17. s r

Obviously, the index may be applied to the top of the vacuum cup in suchcases where the 'form of the body may make it preferable to apon oneside .thereOf to cooperate with a surface to which the same may bethrown to prevent slidingof the missile,

4. A missile of quot form having a. vacuum cup on one side thereofto'cooperate with a. surface to which the same may be throwmto preventsliding of the missile, said missile having an index to cooperate withscore value areas upon the surface to which the missile is thrown.

5. A missile to be thrown at a tamet having a. missfle-receivingsurfacemarked in areas of ALEXANDER WEINBERG.

